This week, Democrats in the Senate are to begin considering the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would add new regulations on how private companies pay their employees. Democratic lawmakers are seeking to overcome an expected Republican [...]

"The wage gap between men and women has hardly budged in the last decade. In fact, according to research released in April of 2013 by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), it will take [...]

"What the researchers found was that the women in the group — all of them are among the generation called millennials — tended to be more educated by the time they were 27 than were [...]

As a general rule, Americans are bred to be hard workers, even when they're sick. However, a recent study out of the San Francisco-based Integrated Benefits Institute shows the short-term productivity gains of working through [...]

Despite improving since the 1960s, the gender pay gap is still quite wide in the United States. Moreover, the gap seems to have leveled off in recent years, remaining at a substantial level. In 2012, [...]

Why do women still earn less than men? No seriously, why? The gender wage gap has been a problem ever since  I Love Lucy was a primetime hit, and we still don't have a complete [...]